Word: regents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vecheslav Wilder who cried: "We have endured seven lean years, given us by the Belgrade Dictatorship, but seven fat years lie ahead!" Seasoned old Croat rebels, such as famed Svetozar Pribitchevitch who now lurks in Paris, meanwhile slipped warning letters into Yugoslavia by secret courier. They feared that the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, has developed Nazi leanings and chose M. Stoyadinovitch to be Premier for the purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel Pribitchevitch. "The main condition imposed by Germany for co-operation would be Yugoslav acceptance...
...Politician Gömbös, as realistic as he is vain, might be seriously compromised by a duel. For as Premier it is his uncongenial duty to enforce the Hungarian law against duelling. Gömbös asked the advice of the venerable papa of Hungarian politics. Regent Admiral Nicholas de Horthy. Thereupon he accepted the challenge but had his seconds explain to Eckhardt's seconds that he, Gömbös, had never said what Bethlen claimed he had said. This satisfactorily stopped that duel but it set off two others...
...decision that the Trustees should take action was reached at a meeting Thursday afternoon between Roger L. Scaife '97, trustee, President Conant, Dean Hanford, and Matthew Luce '91, Regent of the University...
...millionaires but who retains the simple bluntness of the Arizona teamster; who likes to haggle with dealers over fine books; who plays golf every Wednesday afternoon at Menlo Country Club or at Burlingame; who lunches at the Palace Hotel's "cabinet table" with local bigwigs; who is a regent of the University of California; who helped Hiram Johnson drive the Southern Pacific Railroad out of power 25 years ago but who now appears to be an archConservative, an apostle of property rights, counsel for bankers and Red-hater extraordinary...
...music, he is heir to the throne of Europe's tallest King. Of course the Press has persisted in marrying him off too. He was "officially engaged" for a while to Greece's Olga (sister of Britain's new Marina) who finally married Paul, now Prince Regent of Yugoslavia. Rumor then coupled Denmark's Frederick with Belgium's Maria José, Britain's Lady May Cambridge, and various Spanish princesses. A lunatic school of rumor even had him engaged to The Netherlands' plump Crown Princess Juliana, who is heir to a throne...